diet

Health begins in the womb – and even before

April 22, 2011 in Babies & Kids, Fertility, Pregnancy & Childbirth | 21 comments

What determines our health?On this blog we've discussed a number of answers to that question. In fact, I just wrote a series called 9 Steps to Perfect Health in which I listed what I consider to be the most significant lifestyle factors contributing to health and disease.Then we have the contribution of genes - the DNA we inherited and how it shapes our development and health. Chris Masterjohn is writing an excellent series on ...
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Episode 7 – nutrition for fertility, pregnancy & breastfeeding

April 12, 2011 in Podcasts | 4 comments

This week's episode is all about nutrition for fertility, pregnancy and breastfeeding. I answer common questions like: What do you see as the biggest factor keeping women from getting pregnant these days? What one factor, if optimized, has the biggest effect on fertility? How important is the father's nutritional status pre-conception?  What should a man be eating to improve the chances of conception? Do you recommend significantly different diets during the times a couple is trying to ...
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Growing a Healthy Baby: Nutrition for Conception, Pregnancy & Breastfeeding

January 14, 2011 in Events, Classes & Groups, Fertility, Pregnancy & Childbirth, Food & Nutrition | 16 comments

I'm teaching a new 3-hour seminar on February 13th in Berkeley, CA on nutrition for conception, pregnancy and breastfeeding. In March or April I plan to offer the same material as an online class, to make it accessible to those of you that don't live in the Bay Area. I also intend to record the class and put it all on a DVD for those that won't be able to attend the live seminar ...
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When it comes to diet, what’s common isn’t normal

October 29, 2010 in Food & Nutrition, Paleo Diet | 6 comments

"But that's so extreme!"This is a common response when people first hear about the paleolithic diet, which eliminates commonly eaten foods like grains, legumes, sugar and industrial seed oils.But while a paleo diet may seem extreme from our modern perspective, it's actually the most "normal" diet for humans to eat.After the Homo genus evolved 2.4 million years ago, humans lived for 84,000 generations as hunter-gatherers. We ate meat, fish, nuts and seeds, vegetables, some ...
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